Topic > Sigmund Freud's theory of Oedipus Rex and Hamlet
Oedipal love is adoration, idealization, sexual possession and acquisition. A child grows up and realizes that there is love between his two parents. Freud believed that the child internalized the real parental values he had consciously experienced. Unable to explain the unusual hardness of the Superego and its instinctive nature, he thought it might also contain elements derived from the grandparents
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